The man who gunned down three people in northeast Calgary with an AK-47 during an honour killing -- after his sister eloped -- wants to get out of jail 10 years early, the Sun has learned.

After serving 15 years of his life-sentence, Daljit Singh Dulay has begun the process to apply for early parole -- a move that has outraged victim's family.

Raj Sharma said 15 years has not eased the pain for his family, struggling to live without his uncle Mukesh Sharma, killed by a bullet outside his video store March 19, 1991, after witnessing the slaughter of two friends.

"He was only 28 ... he never met his son," said Raj.

"I'm appalled."

In Canada, if someone is handed a life-sentence for first-degree murder, they aren't eligible for parole until after 25 years.

However, under the faint-hope clause, the offender can apply to the court to have that waiting period reduced. If the court reduces the waiting period, Daljit can apply to the National Parole Board for early release, said parole spokeswoman Evelyn Blair.

News that Daljit has begun that process has thrown salt into the family's unhealed wounds, said Raj, a Calgary immigration lawyer.

"We've had to write victim impact statements," he said.

"My aunt is being victimized again."

Raj, who was 14 at the time, recalls the details.

Mukesh, owner of a video store in a Marlborough strip mall, had hired close friends Gary Dulay, 28, and his wife Kulvinder 20, to do some renovations. The couple had fled to Calgary from Vancouver to elope.

What Mukesh and the Dulays didn't know was Kulvinder's brother Daljit, furious over the marriage that went against the family's wishes, hired a private investigator to track down the couple so he could carry out a so-called honour killing.

After hiding out in Calgary for a month, Daljit found his sister and her husband in their car, leaving Mukesh's shop.

He walked up to the car and fired almost 30 bullets into the young couple.

Mukesh, who had been in his own car with his pregnant wife Parveen, and young children, noticed a pregnant woman running towards his store for safety.

Mukesh ran to the woman and placed himself between her and Daljit --taking a fatal shot -- while saving her life.

Daljit was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and one count of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison with not so much as an apology to the families.